Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh- Book Tour

Hi ya everyone!

I hope everyone is doing okay.  Social distancing is definitely something that's not easy to adapt to but it is absolutely necessary. 

We NEED to #flattenthecurve for sure. 

That being said...

Welcome to this new review!  

A few months back, we were asked if we would like to be a part of the Book Tour for Cross Her Heart by Melinda Leigh.  The obvious answer was "Yes!" and thus how this review came to light.  

It's a been a long time since I've read a true mystery novel.  I think the last mystery novel I read was back in 2013 and it was a Women's Murder Club mystery by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.  (Which I don't know if I would count as a mystery?)

Needless to say that this was the first mystery I've read in a while.  I don't really count those new fade psychological thrillers/suspense reads as true mysteries.  I've read my fair share of those and I was never really truly impressed.  

Bree Taggert is a 35 year old detective with the Philadelphia Police Department.  At the young age if 8, Bree and her younger sister and brother lost her mother in tragedy and her father not to soon after.  Never expecting for the unimaginable to happen: the loss of one of her siblings.  Bree returns home to Grey Hollow to find her sister, Erin but she quickly learns that her sister who she just thought was missing, has actually been murdered.  

As the reader, we learn that a man named Matt, discovered Erin's body.  Erin was at ex-husband's Justin's house.  Matt was there to take Justin to his NA meeting.  (Imagine the horror and surprise that Matt faced when he found that scene?? YIKES)

With someone dead and another person missing, there's quite a mystery surrounding the town of Grey's Hollow. 

Leigh tells the story of loss, while also showing the reader how Bree was able to overcome her past and make herself into the strong woman that she is today.  With the help of Matt, Bree is able to uncover the recent twists and turns in Erin's life. 

I liked this book.  It was a good introduction back into the mystery genre for me.  I found myself guessing through the book who the killer could be (I thought it was going to be someone entirely different than who it was!).

I was surprised by who Erin's killer was and I was surprised with Justin's outcome.  But I liked it the overall outcome of the story. 

Something else that I liked was that the story didn't turn into a romance between Bree and Matt.  I feel like as readers, we've all been there when two people are working together in a story and then all of a sudden, they end up romantically linked and sometimes, that can ruin the story.  It could shift the prescriptive of the story and the whole thing goes to crap.  

I'm happy to report that you're able to still purchase books and have them shipped via Amazon! Which is exactly where you'll find this one.  If you're not so sure about ordering a physical copy of the book, you're in luck because it's available as an e-book through Kindle.  :)  Definitely 4 coffee beans out of 5 in my book. 

And with that my friends, I leave you!  I hope everyone is staying safe and keeping their distances when having to go outside for those short periods of time.

Feel free to let me know what you think of the book down below if you snag a copy for yourself. 

Happy reading!
- Jillian